CareerForge track
Site Reliability Engineering
Build systems that never go down
SLOs, error budgets, incident management, chaos engineering. Turn theory into on-call readiness.
Who this is for
Engineers who already touch production systems and want stronger reliability depth.
Why this track exists
This track tightens reliability thinking around observability, incidents, SLOs, and service health.
What you'll actually do
A typical week in this role.
- Define and defend SLOs and error budgets so services stay reliable at scale.
- Run observability with Prometheus, Grafana and Datadog — and respond to incidents on-call.
- Lead blameless post-mortems and turn every failure into a permanent fix.
- Cut toil and plan capacity so systems grow without falling over.
Skills you'll master
The toolkit that gets you hired.
You won't learn these in isolation — every lesson connects to real projects, your CV, and interview practice for this exact role.
Your career path
Where this role can take you
Typical UK progression and salary — roles you can land include SRE, Reliability Engineer, Platform SRE.
Junior / Entry
£40k – £55k
Learn the reliability toolkit, shadow on-call, handle routine operations.
Mid-level
£60k – £80k
Own SLOs for services, lead incidents, and drive down toil.
Senior
£90k – £110k+
Set reliability strategy across systems and own the hardest outages.
Indicative UK ranges (advertised medians); London and contract roles typically pay more.
Your future in this role
Is this career future-proof?
SRE pay is rising while the field specialises — reliability is a discipline companies pay a real premium to get right.
The AI question, answered honestly
This is one of the most AI-proof roles in tech, and here's why: when a system goes down, someone has to own it. AI can help you diagnose faster, but it can't be accountable for the outage — a human is. That accountability is your career moat, and it only grows more valuable as systems get more complex. Learn to own reliability, and you own your future.
This is exactly what CareerForge trains you for — with a personal trainer who stays with you until you land the role.
Programme structure
- 3-month minimum commitment
- Structured track modules and lesson packs
- CV updates and application support inside the same workflow
- Live mock interviews tied to package entitlement
- Review history and post-session notes
Your dedicated trainer
Sam
Precise and analytical SRE who's been on-call at FAANG-scale systems.
One person who stays with you — keeping your lessons, applications and interview prep on the same path, and your morale up, until you land the role.
Ready to move into the site reliability engineering lane?
Apply once and let the track, trainer context, applications, and interview prep stay connected.